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Than Those of Any
DR. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN,
GREATEST EVANGELIST
His Sermons Are Read and Heard by More People
Living Pulpit Orator.
O that galaxy of no-
tables that distin-
guish Indiana as
the most prolific
producer of famous
men in‘this genera-
tion of any State in
Union — Lew Wal-
lace, James Whit-
comb Riley, Charles
Major and others—
must now be added
the name of Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman,
for he is the most distinguished evan-
gelist in the country, and his sermons
are read and heard by more people than
are those of any other pulpit orator.
J. Wilbur Chapman was born in
Richmond, Ind., on the 17th of June,
1859. His mother died when he was
‘but twelve years of age, and his father
when he was nineteen. He pursued
his classical studies at Oberlin College
and Lake Forest University, and grad-
uated from Lane Theological Seminary,
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1882. While in the
theological seminary his earnest spirit
led him to engage in aggressive work
in some of the neighboring communi-
ties. His life as a pastor has been a
continuous series of remarkable suc-
cesses,
In 1883, while on a visit to a former
classmate in Northern New York, he
was called and accepted the pastorate
of the Reformed Church at Schuyler-
ville, N. Y. Here a revival commenced
that brought into the church scores of
people. In 1883 he accepted the call of
the First Reformed Church of Albany,
N. Y., one of the most aristocratic and
conservative churches in the State. «It
may be worthy of note that the church
had been without a pastor for over two
years, and had listened to 110 candi-
dates, when they selected this young
man gs their under shepherd. In five
Years this old, formal church was
transformed into an aggressive evan-
gelistic body — and 500 people were
brought out of the world into its fel-
lewship. While here he responded to
invitations to engage in evangelistic
services in many places in New York
and neighboring States, where his ser-
vices were blessed tn a marked degree.
In 1889 he received a hearty call to
be the successor of Dr. A. T. Pierson in
Bethany Church, of Philadelphia, the
church of which Hon. John Wanamak-
er is an elder. The Albany church of-
fered him greater inducements to re-
main by increase of salary and larger
liberty to do outside evangelistic work,
but finally consented to the separation.
He entered upon. his duties at Beth-
any Church early in 1890, and com-
menced what is perhaps the most re-
‘markable experience of any American
church along the evangelistic lines. In
Jess than three years there were added
to the church membership 1100 souls
-on confession of their faith, more than
‘half of them being men.
The church was so perfectly organ-
jzed under his direction that it would
be difficult for a person to be in at-
tendance at any of its services and not
be reached by the members in a social,
as well as a spiritual way. During his
Remarkable Work at Bethany Church.
It is not an ordinary thing for a pas-
tor of a flourishing church of 3000
members, with a Sunday-school of
3200, to resign his charge for the work
of an evangelist.
The pressure upon Dr. Chapman to
engage exclusively in evangelistic
work by eminent clergymen and. lay-
tor of Bethany Church, Philadelphia,
a eee remem
mn gn —y re
in a similar position, until he was
censtrained in the fall of 1892 to tender
his resignation so that he could devote
himself entirely to this wider field of
service.
After being away from the Bethany
work three years the congregation, not
being able to find a man to carry on
the work begun by Dr.- Chapman, a
most urgent and pressing call was
made to him to again take up the work
as its senior pastor. having as his asso-
ciates the Rev. Charles A. Dickey, D.
DR. CHAPMAN'S CHURCH, THE
YORK
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN, NEW
CiTY.
pastorate in this church he was per-
mitted to engage in evangelistic work
in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Jersey City
and many otherplacesinseveral States,
D., Rev. J. C. Thompson, D. D., and the
Rev. George Van Deurs, with the priv-
ilege of a leave of absence each year
for outside evangelistic work.
men throughout the country while pas-|°
In this three years of his pastoral re-
lation with Bethany something like
1000 persons were added to the mem-
bership, a majority of them men.
ASymposium of Appreciations.
The Rev. Dr. Lucock, of Blooming-
ton, Ind, in writing to a friend about
De. Chapman's work there says: “His
work is scarcely begun until he has the
confidence, affection and cordial sup-
port of those associated with him.
Pastors realize that an excitement for
the honor and glory of the evangelist is
studiously avoided. Flashy results are
not scught after, but the laying of foun-
dations for work in this special line by
pastor and church for months after
the evangelist has closed his work.
His methods employed are such as to
encounter the least resistance and criti-
cism.”
A clergyman writes: “Dr. Chapman
is a most magnetic. spiritually minded
———— Tp 7. 3 pret po—
ern
THE REV. DR: J. WILBUR CHAPMAN.
became greater than could well be es-| Preacher. As a man he is most lova-
timated by any one who had not been | ble, conscientious, consecrated. The
fact that he has been for years a pastor
puts him in quick touch with ministers,
receiving their hearty co-operation.”
It is a remarkable fact that wherever
Dr. Chapman has held evangelistic ser-
vices it attracts the attention of the
press to an unusual degree.
The Rev. Emil Levy says: “Those
who have heard Dr. Chapman are at
one in the first favorable impression
they receive from his open, frank and
earnest manner of address. He never
descends to the level of cheap witti-
cisms or offensive sarcasms, or a desire
‘to make them feel good and laugh.’
He is always earnest and reverent in
the treatment of the truth, and he pre-
sents it with a clearness of thought and
a wealth of illustration which enlists
the attention of his hearers and holds
it from start to finish. After a cool es-
timate of his powers it might be safely
said that he is never more forceful than
at the afternoon meetings, which are
largely for the benefit of Christians,
calculated to deepen their spiritual
lives and make them altogether ‘self-
surrendered’ to God.”
At present Dr. Chapman is pastor of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church in
New York City. He left his Philadel-
phia charge in the height of his suc-
cess, and only after great pressure was
brought to bear on him for the New
York field. It was represented to him
that the Fourth Church was moribund
and that only he could revive it. So at
a great pecuniary sacrifice he took up
the work, and the results have been
plenomenal. His auditorium is the
most consistently crowded in the me-
tropolis.
Many doors in the past two years
have been opened to him, both in this
country and across the water, to enter
other fields and other lines of Christian
work, and while many of these calls
have been most flattering, Dr. Chap-
man has stoutly turned his face against
them, feeling that God had placed His
seal upon him for special evangelistic
work.
The present Thames storage reser-
voirs hold 1,193,000,000 gallons. The
new ones will contain 4,983,000,000 gal-
lons.
Marbles used in Britain are imported
chiefly from Italy, France, Belgium
and Africa. Sicilian is the cheapest
and commonest.
.
Source of Race Degencration,
Dr. Folk, in a work on “Criminal
France,” says: “Alcoholism is one of the
most patent causes of race degeneration.
Crime, which is the most powerful factor
of alcoholism, never leaves the family or
individual their primitive integrity.”
Caused a Decrease in Crime.
In the seventeen largest towns of Scot:
land during the first three years of the
Forbes MacKenzie , closing the saloons
on the Sabbath, there was a decrease in
the cases of crime, combined with drunk-
enness, to the extent of 29,305.
A Harmful Example.
Very few moderate drinkers keep their
moderation within such bounds that they
are not damaged in their health and man-
hness, and that there are still fewer who
fail to exert a harmful example upon the
young men with whom they come in con-
tact.
Alcoholism and Health.
It is now an accepted fact that alcoho
is one of the principal causes of sickness,
disease, insanity and pauperism, one of the
most active agents in the degeneracy of
the race and its habitus! use materially
shortens human life.
Sentiment in Favor of Temperance,
The growth of public sentiment in fa-
vor of temperance and against the saloon
manifests itself in many ways. In its
recent meeting in Nashville, the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Tennessee passed an
edict forbidding any member to engage
in selling intoxicating liquors either by
retail or wholesale, the edict to be in op-
eration in 1903, thus giving liquor dealers
who are licensed one year to get out of
their saloons or out of their lodge.
The record aurora borealis lasted
for a week in August, 1895.
DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON
A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED |
PASTOR-EVANGCELIST.
Subject: The Wagons Are Coming—The
Story of Jacob—A Lesson For the Peo-
ple of To-Day—If We Give Ourselves to
God Unstinted Blessing Will Be Ours.
New Yorx Crry.—The Rev. J. Wilbur
Chapman, the popular pastar of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, who is remarkably
successful as an evangelist, has prepared
an interesting sermon Ygon the subject of
“The Wagons Are oming.” It is
preached from the text, “And when he
saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to
carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father
revived.” Geneiss 45: 27. ‘
There is a fascination about the land of
Egypt which cannot be described in words.
ere are some particular features of this
ancient land a impress you. First of all
there is a peculiar haze over the country
which is unlike anything to be seen in any
other part of the world. The sunsets are
indescribable, but the most striking thin
about Egypt is the ruins; on every side o
you are these ruins telling of the splendors
of past days. You pass up and down aye-
nues that are lined with sphinx and with
obelisk, the exquisite carvings of which re-
veal the fact that there were giants in
the days when these works of art were
made. In the olden times the world’s
pomp and wealth seemed to have been
oured at the very feet of this capital of
Pe and here in all the days of its splen-
dor and power stood Joseph, next to Pha-
raoh in power. There are some places vis-
ited by the traveler to-day which speak di-
rectly of Joseph and his times, as, for ex-
ample, the ancient obelisk at Helioapolis,
where Joseph got his bride, and the most
ancient sphinx standing near the pyramids
beyond Cairo looking out to-day over the
waste of the desert as it has been doing
for centuries, and if its lips could move it
might sav truly, “Before Abraham was I
am.’ The story of the early life of
Joseph need not be told, for we are per-
fectly familiar with it. We listened to
the recounting of it in our childhood’s
days, and it was one of the fascinating sto-
ries told us by our Christian mothers. The
account of his coat of many colors, the
bowing sheaves in the harvest field, the
anger of his brother, and the grief of his
old father are facts too well known to
need telling here, except that it is well for
us to know that he is, to say the least, an
almost perfect illustration of our Saviour,
or as some oné has said, “Our Joseph,” for
the names of Joseph and Jesus are practi-
cally the same. Joseph was loved by his
father, hated bv his brethren, and was ex-
alted to the place of power in the then
known greatest kingdom in the world. Our
Saviour was the beloved Son of His Fath-
er, was hated by those whom He came to
save, sold for thirty pieces of silver, cast
into the pit, is to become the Saviour of
His brethren, and is exalted to-day at the
right hand of the Father in majesty and in
power. All this is striking, to say the least,
and makes the text to be of added interest.
The story of Jacob. We cannot appre-
ciate this text without we have the story of
this remarkable Old Testament character.
He was a typical Jew, if we understand
him as we may understand Israel; a people
found in every country and belonging to
none. ‘Some one has said that Abraham
was a hero, but Jacob a plain man dwelling
in tents. Abraham is above us, but Jacob
is one of ourselves, and the difference be-
tween Abraham and Jacob in the Old Tes-
tament is the difference between Paul and
Peter in the New Testament. the one tow-
ering above us like some mighty mountain
peak, and the other our brother and com-
panion in temptation and failure. There
are several points in the history of Jacob
which we would do well to have in mind.
First, Bethel. It was a bleak, barren
place in the heart of Palestine, the traveler
sees on every side of him great rocks and
nothing but rocks, and long years ago
when Jacob was fleeing away from his
brother Esau the swift Eastern night comes
down upon him, and there was nothing for
him to do but to lie down, make a pillow
of stones for his head and try to sleep.
(a) The Tadder. Did this not teach in
the days of Jacob what we have learned
since the time of Christ that earth is not
the binding star, but is bound to heaven
not simply a ladder in a man’s dream,
but by Him of whom the ladder is an illus-
tration, and who said, “No man cometh
unto the Father but by Me.”
(b) The Angels. When we see them as-
cending it is an illustration of our prayers
rising to d, and when we behold them
descending it is an illustration of the an-
swers coming down. It is certainly a com-
fort for us all to know that we are as truly
united to God as in the night of Jacob’s
dream he felt himself to be.
(¢) The Voice of God. He said to the
sleeping man, “I will be with thee, I will
keep thee, I will not leave thee,” and this
dream was an inspiration for many a long
dreary day. |
Second, Jabbok. Jacob 1s on his way
back home when suddenly he hears that
Esau is ahead of him and he is afraid. He
sends his proverty over the stream and
then his children and finally his beloved
Rachel, and he: himself is left alone.
Around him the stillness of the midnight
hour, beside him the murmur of the brook
over the stones, above him the depths of
heaven, and while he was left alone the
thought of his past failure comes to him
and he is depressed, when suddenly he
finds himself in the grasp of the angel. and
he struggles to free himself. Let it be
noted that he is not wrestling with the an-
gel, but the angel with him, and is this
not God seeking to take from Jacob’s life
that which has hindered the development
of God’s life in him. There are three
things to be remembered here.
(a) The change of his name. His name
was Jacob, which means “a supplanter and
cheat,” and the angel gave him the name
of Israel, which means ‘a prince,” because
he had prevailed.
Power with God and with men, but
let it be remembered that it is power with
God first. So many of us are seeking for
power to move men; if we could but learn
that we can move men by the way of the
throna of God it would be a lesson of un-
speakable value.
(¢) The vision of God) Ever afterward
as Jacob remembered Jabbok he said, “I
have seen God face to face,” and this was
the secret in part of the transformation of
his character.
Third, Bethel. It will be noticed that
Jacob is at Bethel again. He has had a
dreary experience of failure, and in the
35th chapter of Genesis God tells him to
go back to Bethel. In itself Bethel is not
much, it is just a long range of barren
hills, but to Jacob it was a memorable
spot. for there he had seen God. It is an
easy thing to understand how he might
have been homesick for Bethel, for we
long to see the old home so filled with sa-
cred memories and the old land where we
were born, the old church where first we
came to Christ, and so God said to Jacob.
“Put away your idols,” and he buried
them near to the oak and hurried on to
Bethel. Ts this not a lesson for some of us
in these days, we have spiritually declined,
to have lost the peace that once we had,
the power that used to be ours, let us go
back to Bethel and pray as we used to
pray. read the Bible as we used to read it.
spend the Lord’s day as we used to spend
it, give ourselves to God again. I doubt
not but that blessing will be ours without
measure. There are some other events
which we ought to keep in mind in the life
of Jacob to apnreciate the text. One was
the death of Rachel as he came near to
Bethlehem. I have seen the tomb in which
it is said her body was placed, and this is
recorded in the 35th chapter of Genesis.
the 16th to the 19th verses. “And they
Journeyed from Bethel: and there was but
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a little way to come to Ephrath; and
Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
And it came to pass as she was in hard
labor that the midwife said unto her, Fear
not, thou shalt have this son also. And it
came to pass, as her soul was in depart-
ing, for Se died, that she called his name
Ben-oni, but his father called him Benja-
min. And Rachel died, and was buried in
the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.”
The other was, his loss of Joseph. For
twenty years he had mourned him. There
are some cries that are crushed out of his
heart which enable us to see and under-
stand his grief, as, for example, “I shall
go down to my grave mourning,” and
again. “Me ye have bereft of my children.
Joseph is not, Simion is not and now you
will take Benjamin from me.”
IL.
The meeting of Joseph and Jac We
are familiar with the story of Joseph's rev-
elation of peace to his brethren and now
at Pharaoh’s suggestion the wagons were
sent for the old man and all his loved ones,
that they might come into the land of
Egypt and dwell there while the famine
raged in Canaan. I can hear the wagons
rumbling outside the palace door, and Pha-
raoh stands at his palace with Joseph be-
side him, the ring upon his hand and a
chain of authority about his neck. Wagon
after wagon passes away ladened with corn
and wheat and a change of raiment, and 1
can see Jacob as he sits in front of his
home thinking of his absént sons and of
Joseph, 1 am sure, for whether our boys
go out to the ends of the earth or heaven
they never get away from us. Suddenly
e sees a cloud of dust in the distance, and
he knows that some one is coming. His
heart begins to beat rapidly when he im-
agines it to be his sons. When they are
near enough to cry out to him thev tell
him, “Joseph is yet alive.” At this the old
man fainted. ‘But when he saw the
wagons which Joseph had sent to carry
him the spirit of Jacob their father re-
vived.”?, And he said. “It is enough.
Joseph my son is yet alive. I will go and
see him before I die.” From all of this
beautiful Old Testament incident I learn
these helpful lessons.
First, the wagons have come for us,
bringing us the best blessings of heaven, |
containing a change of raiment, so that we !
need be clad no longer in the garments of
our own righteousness, but in the robes of
His righteousness. In this garment there
is the mark of the blood shed for our re-
demption and the reflection of the glory of
the throne of God, bringing us food to
eat that the world cannot give, and which
if a man eat he shall live forever.
Second, bringing us good news. These
wagons shall come to us as they came to
Jacob. The best of the news was that
Joseph was vet alive. In the Old Testa-
ment when the day of atonement came the
priest took off his garment of glory and
beauty and clad in linen robes made his
way into the presence of the Ark of the
Covenant, and then the service over he
came out and put on again the garment of
glory and beauty, on the hem of the robe
of which there was a golden bell. and a
pomegranate the whole length of the hem
round about, and as he moved around the
people heard the ringing of the bells and
knew that the priest was vet alive. Jacob
knew that Joseph was alive because he
saw the wagons. and we know that our
Joseph is yet alive because of the bless-
ings He is showering upon us and the
peace which passeth understanding filling
our souls, and Jacob heard that Joseph
himself would come to meet him, and one
day our Joseph shall appear. We know
not when that day shall be, but the skies
shall brighten with our coming Lord, and
when He comes we shall step into the cha-
riot and be taken away from this earth to
heaven. Tord Jesus come quickly.
Third, the wacons took Jacob up to his
lost boy, and one day the wagon will come
far us to take us up to our friends who
have gone from us. Jacob did not think
of the Nile in Egypt, which he was to see,
but of Joseph, and that is what heaven
is to us, the presence of Jesus. If He is
not there, there will be no music; if He is
not there, there will be no glory; if He is
not there, there will be no joy, but thanks
be unto God these wagons shall take us
up to meet our loved ones to whom we
haye said good-bye in this world, and that
will be joy unspeakable.
I,
Home at last. The end has come for
Jacob. His has been a great life, and his
a great fight. We scarcely appreciate him
until he 1s going. We have looked upon
great buildings in process of construction
and said, “That is the greatest building
in the city,” but never until the scaffold-
ing is taken down do we appreciate the
work of the architect or the skill of the
men who carried out his plans, and now
that the scaffolding is being taken down
from about Jacob we see his real manhood.
“I shall be gathered to my people,” he
said to those who were about him, and
that settles for me the question as to
whether we shall know each other in the
other land.
“What is death, O what is death?
’Tis slumber to the weary,
"Tis rest to the forlorn,
"Tis shelter to the dreary,
"Tis peace amid the storm,
’Tis the entranee to our home,
"Tis the passage to that God
Who bids His children come,
When their weary course is trod.”
“Bury me with my fathers,” he said,
Genesis 49: 29-31. “And he charged them,
and said unto them, I am to be gathered
unto my people; bury me with my fathers
in the cave that is in the field of Ephron,
the Hittite. In the cave that is in the
field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre,
in the land of Canaan. which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron, the Hit-
tite, for a possession of a bury-place.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah,
his wife; there they buried Isaac and Re-
bekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah,”
and that must have been a great proces-
sion which started from Egypt to Canaan.
I can think of another procession a little
like it. In 1881, not far from uxor, a
great find was made of kings and queens
at a place called Del El Bahri. For a long
time the tourists had been picking up |
pieces of jewelry and other valuables
which the scholars knew belonged to the
kings and queens of other ages, and at
last after much work it was found that
a discovery had been made of the greatest
value, and when the representatives of the
Government made their way to Del EI
Bahri they really found the mummy of the
great Pharaoh and others who were bur-
ied with him. These bodies were taken
out of the place of hiding, carried to the
Nile and floated off to Cairo, and it is
said as the procession moved along the cel-
ebrated river the Egyptians lined the bank
all the way to the city, threw dust into
the air. fell upon their faces and cried
aloud, ‘Pharaoh the great has come again!
Pharaoh the great has come again!” It
must have been like this when Jacob was
taken back to Canaan, “Jacob, the great,
has come again,” but at last they reach
the cave of Machpelah. and they place
him there to rest. Abraham is there with
Sarah and Isaac with Rebekah and Jacob
with Leah, and there they shall wait until
the tomb is opened by the coming ‘of
Christ, and hand in hand they shall go
forth to meet Him. May God speed the
ay.
The Estimate of a Man.
If a man be gracious and courteous to
strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
1
the world and that his heart is no island,
cat off trom other lands, but a continent
that joins to them. If he be compassion-
ate towards the afflictions of others, it
shows that his heart is like the noble tree
that is wounded itself when it gives the
balm. If he easily pardons and remits
offenses, it shows that his mind is planted
above injuries, so that it cannot be shot,
If he be thankful for small benefits, it
shows that he weighs men’s minds, and
not their trash.—Catholic Mirror.
WHEN SIZE DOESN'T COUNT.
My little boy came running in
ur house one recent day;
His pretty nose was minus skin,
I much regret to say. :
i On leaving home his two bright eyes
With laughter. had been stirred;
Now he had three, to my, surprise
(A black one was the third).
Out poured his tale: how Jimmy Joaes
Had caught him unaware, :
And mopped the pavement with his boxes
While pulling out his hair. ’
But, then, oh, triumph of the tale!
That youth went on to say :
He’d tackled Jimmy, tooth and nail,
And “licked him every way.”
Seeking to hide my sinful pride
rom that small urchin’s view,
I said, “How cgpuld you lick him good?
Jim’s bigger far than you.”
Whereat with score that sturdy elf
Looked fixedly at me,
And straighaway he rid himself
Of this philosophy:
“He’s bigger'n me? Why, Papa Jacl:
Bigness don’t count, I say.
My pony’s swifter on a track
Than a cart horse any day;
My pouter pigeon has a threat
Beats any living thing,
But not one single little notz
I’ve heard that pouter sing.
“The el’phant’s big as any house,
And weighs about ten ton;
But could an el’phant catch a mouse
If mousie tried to run?”
Some more comparisons as pat
That small boy with a grin
Shot forth at me; and while I cat
My little wife came in.
She only weighs a hundred pounds, -
But when she saw my pride
In Willie's pugilistic rounds
Her voice rang high and wide.
! Such scorn! such fire! I quickly fled,
| Defeated, from the din,
And as I went that small boy said,
| “Say, pa, does bigness win?”
| —John O'Keefe.
Helen—*“So your sister Julia is mar-
ried?” Herbert—Yes.” Helen—*“Which
one of those men she used to make fun
+ of did she marry ?’—Puck.
“Does Billy Billions get much fun
out of his automobile?’ ‘I don’t be-
lieve he does. I never hear of his be-
ing arrested.”—Washington Stax.
To mask as things of sentiment
Our ailments oft make bold; «
We think we're melancholy when
We're merely taking cold.
—Washington Star.
He—“College graduates do not ale
ways marry.” She—"Well, when a girl
has had a lot of money spent on her
education it makes her awfully par-
ticular.”—Detroit I'ree Press.
Kywoter—“There’s no doubt about
that old saying about driving a horse
to water.” Kidder—"Yes, and although
a man may drive a pen, a pencil must
be lead.”—Philadelphia Press.
Nurse—“You dreadful children, where
have you been?’ Young Hopeful—
“Oh, nursie, we've been trying to
‘drown those dear little ducks, but they
will come to the top.”—Punch.
“Will I hav’ a harp when I die an’ go
to hevvun?’ asked little Bobbie. “I
hope so,” replied his mother. “Aw,”
said Bobbie, impatiently, “I'd ruthcr
hav’ a drum.”—OQhio State Journal.
A woman’s crowning glory,
In ancient song and story,
Was woman’s wealth of hair; but that
‘Was long ago. lis now her hat.
—Philadelphia Record.
“Did I understand you to say that
she lowered herself when she married
him?” “Yes. She slid down from a
third-story window, using a rope made
of bedclothes.””—Chicago Record-Her-
ald.
He—*It isn’t always safe to judge
by appearances, yeu know.” She—
“Quite true. I once knew a young
man who wore a yachting cap and
who really owned a boat.”’—Chicago
News.
“Can you make me a set of teeth
that will look natural?” asked the pa-
tient. ‘My dear sir,” replied the tooth-
carpenter, ‘the teeth I make are so
natural they fairly ache.”—Chicago
News.
“Amy feels terribly about her new
dress. She knows it isn’t a bit be-
coming.” “What makes her think so?”
“Why, several of her girl friends have
told her it looks perfectly sweet.”—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
“Harold, I must have your hair
shingled,” observed the fond mother,
as she curled the little fellow’s golden
tresses. “Ain’t my sailor hat a good
| 'epuf roof?’ asked the youngster in-
nocently.—Ohio State Journal.
“Where does the electricity come
from that lights our houses?’ asked
the teacher. *‘It comes from the wall,”
answered the little girl who resided
in an apartment house. “The janitor
goes and unbuttons it.””—Chicago Trib-
une.
Sponges of Rubber.
Novelty is shown in a sponge that
has made its appearance. It is of
Russian manufacture and resembles
closely a dark brown sponge, but
while it consists chiefly of holes, what-
ever solid material there is of it is rub-
ber. These sponges come in two sizes,
oblong, with rounded corners. Wheth-
er, being made of rubber, they are less
likely to form germ repositories than
the genuine articles remains to be
geen.
mr ———
Sheep Dentistry.
A New South Wales correspondent
says that a shepherd of Hargreaves,
near Mudgee, has tried dentistry for
sheep with great success. He had a
valuable ram which found great diffi-
culty in masticating its food owing to
the losg of teeth. Artificial teeth were
inserted, and the animal since
igorously attacked its fodder. This
is believed to be the first experiment
of the kind in the colony.—Tit-Bits.
has